'Dogs' of War
Here's a report from The Independent about an ISIS video which has been extensively shown on TV news channels in recent days.
One of the men, a corporal, appears to be more reluctant than the others to repeat the slogan, and has to be ordered several times to say the word before he obeys.
Off camera, the corporal’s tormentor forces him to lie on the ground and shoots him.
The video then shows the militant gloating over what he has done, and holding the dead man's identity card up to the camera.
He asks a captured soldier sitting beside the dead body: “This dog I killed, where is he from?”
Told that the man he killed was a Shia from Sinjar, in northern Iraq, he says: “He is a Shia, praise to Allah, the lord of the universe!
“Praise to Allah, whether he is a believer or not, I killed him. I killed a Shia! I killed a Shia!”
Responding to the video, and others which appear to show Isis militants killing unarmed prisoners, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said:
"It appears hundreds of non-combatant men were summarily executed over the past five days, including surrendered or captured soldiers, military conscripts, police and others associated with the government.
The Sunni extremist who murdered this man clearly regards his fellow Muslim as no more worthy than a 'dog' and it is disturbing to think that supposedly religious people can have such scant regard for another human life.
